Please test my store

[evaos]

Hi there!! :'(

 

I have made this store a while ago and it has some traffic but not many orders. Have no idea what could be wrong as this is my first little monster.

Looking for some helpful users to send me lots of comments. Please do test orders.

 

As a reminder credit card nr for testing is 4111111111111111

Please put a date in the future.

nsaroma.com

 

thanx

eva :)

[digilee]

you have some problems with the layout:

On the page with Hydrosol, the right bar stretches way over from your main content.

Your prices are coming up strange 'Hydrosol 4oz. - $15.5'

 

Also, have fun sorting this one out:

http://nsaroma.com/catalog/gift-certificate-2500-p-966.html

 

Some of the links at the bottom lead to 404's

 

At least you've tried to integrate osc into your main site.

 

Generally the site lacks detail, custom buttons, product shots etc

 

4/10 for effort.

[evaos]

you have some problems with the layout:

On the page with Hydrosol, the right bar stretches way over from your main content.

Your prices are coming up strange 'Hydrosol 4oz. - $15.5'

 

Also, have fun sorting this one out:

http://nsaroma.com/catalog/gift-certificate-2500-p-966.html

 

Some of the links at the bottom lead to 404's

 

At least you've tried to integrate osc into your main site.

 

Generally the site lacks detail, custom buttons, product shots etc

 

4/10 for effort.

 

Thank you for your comments. I fixed some of the stuff you suggested.

 

Eva

[Guest]

Good Morning Eva,

 

Checked out your site. Good job of interweaving osCommerce and the rest of your site.

 

Criticisms:

a) Center your catalog pages like you did with the rest of your site

B) In my opinion, the bestsellers box doesn't look that great with the list aligned right. Align left, two spaces from the numbers. (Same with the cart box)

c) I would suggest you add some proper verbiage on the category pages. Example: I looked at Carrier Oils and was given a list of 4 products. I don't know what Carrier Oils are... explain them to me (ie: sell them to me). I might be totally off-base or the wrong target audience, but I thought I would suggest it for your consideration.

d) "add to cart" button - twice on each product page

e) Some of the links at the bottom lead to 404 pages

 

Brownie Points:

a) Click here for directions on contact us page

B) Same style throughout site

c) Name and Address, loud and proud

 

Possibilities:

a) install a contribution such as Previous - Next - With detailed info or Previous/Next for Product Sort. It is the only way for the consumer to easily browse a list of products. (IMNSHO)

B) make the yellow free shipping bar smaller. I got tired of looking at it.

c) Get or make a new set of buttons which match your current style.

 

I am a little puzzled, I noticed you have SEO URLs but I didn't see any keyword or description metas. (if they even matter anymore.)

 

Personally your color scheme didn't appeal to me. There seems to be a little disharmony. But I typically don't buy those types of product and I'm a guy so your color scheme is probably perfect for your intended audience. (There is supposed to be some humor in that.)(I am not criticizing your color scheme, I don't find it "bad", I just don't like it.)

 

I am not sure if it is proper to criticize that the account sign up pages where not SSL. But, personally I will not sign up without SSL.

 

Generally you have a nice site. No big problems and a lotta good points.

 

Just for the S & Gs... I wonder if it would be appropriate to put your National and State license numbers in your catalog footer to boost your creditability to those who don't know just how big you are? (I mean you are brick and mortar not a kitchen table; you are licensed to teach practitioners.)

[Guest]

Good Morning Eva,

 

Checked out your site. Good job of interweaving osCommerce and the rest of your site.

 

Criticisms:

a) Center your catalog pages like you did with the rest of your site

B) In my opinion, the bestsellers box doesn't look that great with the list aligned right. Align left, two spaces from the numbers. (Same with the cart box)

c) I would suggest you add some proper verbiage on the category pages. Example: I looked at Carrier Oils and was given a list of 4 products. I don't know what Carrier Oils are... explain them to me (ie: sell them to me). I might be totally off-base or the wrong target audience, but I thought I would suggest it for your consideration.

d) "add to cart" button - twice on each product page

e) Some of the links at the bottom lead to 404 pages

 

Brownie Points:

a) Click here for directions on contact us page

B) Same style throughout site

c) Name and Address, loud and proud

 

Possibilities:

a) install a contribution such as Previous - Next - With detailed info or Previous/Next for Product Sort. It is the only way for the consumer to easily browse a list of products. (IMNSHO)

B) make the yellow free shipping bar smaller. I got tired of looking at it.

c) Get or make a new set of buttons which match your current style.

 

I am a little puzzled, I noticed you have SEO URLs but I didn't see any keyword or description metas. (if they even matter anymore.)

 

Personally your color scheme didn't appeal to me. There seems to be a little disharmony. But I typically don't buy those types of product and I'm a guy so your color scheme is probably perfect for your intended audience. (There is supposed to be some humor in that.)(I am not criticizing your color scheme, I don't find it "bad", I just don't like it.)

 

I am not sure if it is proper to criticize that the account sign up pages where not SSL. But, personally I will not sign up without SSL.

 

Generally you have a nice site. No big problems and a lotta good points.

 

Just for the S & Gs... I wonder if it would be appropriate to put your National and State license numbers in your catalog footer to boost your creditability to those who don't know just how big you are? (I mean you are brick and mortar not a kitchen table; you are licensed to teach practitioners.)

I just learned that in this forum typing a b with a close parenthesis after it gives you a smiley face rather than a b with a close parenthesis after it.

[evaos]

Good Morning Eva,

 

Checked out your site. Good job of interweaving osCommerce and the rest of your site.

 

Criticisms:

a) Center your catalog pages like you did with the rest of your site

B) In my opinion, the bestsellers box doesn't look that great with the list aligned right. Align left, two spaces from the numbers. (Same with the cart box)

c) I would suggest you add some proper verbiage on the category pages. Example: I looked at Carrier Oils and was given a list of 4 products. I don't know what Carrier Oils are... explain them to me (ie: sell them to me). I might be totally off-base or the wrong target audience, but I thought I would suggest it for your consideration.

d) "add to cart" button - twice on each product page

e) Some of the links at the bottom lead to 404 pages

 

Brownie Points:

a) Click here for directions on contact us page

B) Same style throughout site

c) Name and Address, loud and proud

 

Possibilities:

a) install a contribution such as Previous - Next - With detailed info or Previous/Next for Product Sort. It is the only way for the consumer to easily browse a list of products. (IMNSHO)

B) make the yellow free shipping bar smaller. I got tired of looking at it.

c) Get or make a new set of buttons which match your current style.

 

I am a little puzzled, I noticed you have SEO URLs but I didn't see any keyword or description metas. (if they even matter anymore.)

 

Personally your color scheme didn't appeal to me. There seems to be a little disharmony. But I typically don't buy those types of product and I'm a guy so your color scheme is probably perfect for your intended audience. (There is supposed to be some humor in that.)(I am not criticizing your color scheme, I don't find it "bad", I just don't like it.)

 

I am not sure if it is proper to criticize that the account sign up pages where not SSL. But, personally I will not sign up without SSL.

 

Generally you have a nice site. No big problems and a lotta good points.

 

Just for the S & Gs... I wonder if it would be appropriate to put your National and State license numbers in your catalog footer to boost your creditability to those who don't know just how big you are? (I mean you are brick and mortar not a kitchen table; you are licensed to teach practitioners.)

 

Great advice!!! Thank you bunches!!! :wub: Will work on the stuff you pointed out. :*

 

Eva

[Andrew Yuen]

Two suggestions, 1) don't use keyword stuffing (in your footer) it's a black hat SEO technique. 2) change the buttons on your site to match your color scheme.

[evaos]

Good Morning Eva,

 

Checked out your site. Good job of interweaving osCommerce and the rest of your site.

 

Criticisms:

a) Center your catalog pages like you did with the rest of your site

B) In my opinion, the bestsellers box doesn't look that great with the list aligned right. Align left, two spaces from the numbers. (Same with the cart box)

c) I would suggest you add some proper verbiage on the category pages. Example: I looked at Carrier Oils and was given a list of 4 products. I don't know what Carrier Oils are... explain them to me (ie: sell them to me). I might be totally off-base or the wrong target audience, but I thought I would suggest it for your consideration.

d) "add to cart" button - twice on each product page

e) Some of the links at the bottom lead to 404 pages

 

Brownie Points:

a) Click here for directions on contact us page

B) Same style throughout site

c) Name and Address, loud and proud

 

Possibilities:

a) install a contribution such as Previous - Next - With detailed info or Previous/Next for Product Sort. It is the only way for the consumer to easily browse a list of products. (IMNSHO)

B) make the yellow free shipping bar smaller. I got tired of looking at it.

c) Get or make a new set of buttons which match your current style.

 

I am a little puzzled, I noticed you have SEO URLs but I didn't see any keyword or description metas. (if they even matter anymore.)

 

Personally your color scheme didn't appeal to me. There seems to be a little disharmony. But I typically don't buy those types of product and I'm a guy so your color scheme is probably perfect for your intended audience. (There is supposed to be some humor in that.)(I am not criticizing your color scheme, I don't find it "bad", I just don't like it.)

 

I am not sure if it is proper to criticize that the account sign up pages where not SSL. But, personally I will not sign up without SSL.

 

Generally you have a nice site. No big problems and a lotta good points.

 

Just for the S & Gs... I wonder if it would be appropriate to put your National and State license numbers in your catalog footer to boost your creditability to those who don't know just how big you are? (I mean you are brick and mortar not a kitchen table; you are licensed to teach practitioners.)

 

Doug, would you know why the bestsellers box is aligned this way? I have no idea how it happened. Went back to pages I manipulated but cannot figure it out.

 

:blink:

eva

[Guest]

Doug, would you know why the bestsellers box is aligned this way? I have no idea how it happened. Went back to pages I manipulated but cannot figure it out.

 

:blink:

eva

Hi Eva,

 

I think I found the solution to your problem.

 

At first I thought your alignment problem was caused by (what I call) the inherited properties effect.

 

Then I looked further and thought maybe your problem was caused by some of the invalid html code your site spits out.

 

Correcting those "problems" still didn't make my test page view correctly. I don't know how long I stared at things before the solution finally jumped off the page.

 

In you stylesheet.css find the following:

.infoBoxContents {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
color: #006633;
background-position: left;
text-align: left;
width: 100%;
}

and delete the line: width: 100%; (You were telling each table cell to be at 100% width thus they'll divide equally regardless of content.)

 

I do have further suggestions for you. These are kinda nit-picky though.

 

I have noticed that your pages contain "inline styles". All of these should be moved to you stylesheet.css

 

Part of the browser source code for page http://nsaroma.com/catalog/essential-oils-...ic-c-10_11.html goes like this:

<!-- body_text_eof //-->

<td width="125" valign="top"><table border="0" "width="125" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td></td></tr>
<!-- right_navigation //-->

Find and eliminate that extra quotation mark please. (I believe this is on index.php) (How much of an effect this has will depend upon how individual browsers interpret attributeless values ie: "width=" became a value of an unspecified attribute. 125 became a valueless attribute {no equal sign + value}. And so on.)

 

You also have allot of code that is comment out on the page. The only people who see it are those looking at your source code and some spiders who don't see things the same as browsers. Personally, I don't like seeing commented out code. Therefore, I am not saying that it is wrong, only that I saw it and don't like it on the page. <grin>

 

I am finding that when I look at someone else's site to try and fix problems that I learn allot myself. Today I had to THINK about stylesheet rules and their effects. (And, I need to apply all my suggestions to my own sites.)

 

Have a great day,